66 Indian Museum Notes. LVoL IV. 



The Deputy Collector writes that treatment with a mixture of 

 I part of kerosine oil, i part of sour milk and lOo parts of water had 

 the effect of killing the larvae and restoring the vigorous growth of 

 the plants. 



{b) A phial containing examples of the brinjal stalk and leaf para- 

 site, consisted of three different kinds of insects, viz., numerous 

 imagines and larvae of a Coccinellid beetle, Epilachna, sp ; five 

 specimens of a Cetonine beetle, Glycyphana^ sp. ; and a few larvse of 

 an unknown moth. 



The Deputy Collector on special duty report-sd that dusting the 

 plants through a calico bag, with a mixture of i ounce of London 

 purple, I ounce of quick lime and 3 pounds of covvdung ashes, 

 powdered together very fine, proved an effective remedy, and the 

 brinjal plants that were denuded of their leaves put forth new shoots 

 afterwards, and produced almost the normal quantity of fruits. 



{c) Specimens of a black beetle destructive to chrysalids of the 

 wild mulberry silk cocoons {Theophilla huttoni) consisted of spe- 

 cimens of a Chrysomelid beetle, Chrysomela, sp. 



{d) Insect known as the "Kuji fly," reported as parasitic on the 

 mulberry silkworm of commerce, consisted of a single specimen of 

 a Dipterous insect in too poor a state of preservation for identifica- 

 tion. 



The Deputy Collector reports as follows regarding the insect : — 



•' The fifth is the " Kuji fly " of Maldah : a Tachinid parasite found only in 

 May and June in Maldah. They are parasitic to the Mulberry silkworm, in 

 the same way as the Trycolyga bombycis, from which they differ both in appear- 

 ance and in their manner of attacking silkworms. The " Kuji fly " is smaller 

 than the ordinary silkworm fly, and it has an arched back (Kuji, meaning hunch- 

 backed). They also differ in their behaviour from the ordinary silkworm fly, 

 as they make a silent and a direct dash at the silkworm trays, instead of buzzing' 

 about in the vicinity of rearing houses, and moving about openly among silk- 

 worms and depositing eggs upon them, as the Trycolyga does. Being also an 

 annual insect and rather rare, it is difficult to secure a large number of 

 specimens.'' 



(2) In August 1895, specimens of moths, said to be causincr 

 serious damage to Joar, Makai, and Lucerne, on the Karachi Sewaore 

 Farm, were forwarded to the Indian Museum from the Superin- 

 tendent, Municipal Gardens, Karachi, through the Reporter on 

 Economic Products to the Government of India. 



The examples proved, on examination, to consist of two species 

 of moths, which belong to two widely different families, namely 



